>
> John,
>
> Thanks for your thoughtful and detailed response to my question. I have 4
> Ivy Jacobson books, one of which is Simplified Horary Astrology. My teacher
> was a student of hers, but I secretly drifted off to the Jungian astrology
> direction and didn't tell my teacher who would have been horrified and also
> did not read the Ivy Jacobson books. Are you saying that an event chart is
> the same as horary? I think of horary as asking a question and you set a
> chart up for the time of the question and event chart is to analyze an
> event. I am asked by a non-profit center where I volunteer to pick a good
> date for conferences, etc. Can I use horary guidelines for that?
>
> Janet
>
>

>

Janet:
The interpretation of horary and electional charts are the same in
that they use the strict traditional methods of interpretation and do not
incorporate the modern humanistic approach. You don't try to find the
"positive" side of a square to a retrograde Saturn, for example. Bad is bad
and good is good and you can't try to make the best of things.
If in a horary chart you ask about getting married and the rulers of
the 1st and 7th are square, you con't look at finding ways to "overcome" and
"use" the square, you say "bad idea" and move on. The same thing goes with
any event centered analysis.
In electional you want to find the most positive placement for all
the significators relevant to the matter in question, within the time frame
you wish. Of course, you might not be able to do that and perhaps it is
because the event you want to bring about successfully, isn't possible in
the time frame you wish.
Last spring in Britain, the Tories picked a bad time to call an
election and got their ass kicked at the polls. They could have called the
election at any time in a 5 year period, but they wanted to hold off until
the very end. So they gave themselves a narrow time frame and there was no
good astrological period in that time frame.
A good event chart to look at, is Tony Blairs chart for taking
office. (May 2, 1997 12:55 PM London). A lot of very interesting and
immediate things come up. For example, the Moon's first aspect is opposition
to the ruler of his 4th (domicile) Mars in the 2nd. His first act as PM was
to switch residences, because of the size of his family, with his Chancellor
of the Exchequer (2nd), who had the bigger residence. So the PM doesn't
live at 10 Downing St., but 11 Downing St.
Di worshippers can get in on it by noting the South Node in the 8th,
square Fortuna, too see how deaths will effect the whole structure of his
administration.
Just something to play with.
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> John,
>
> My experience with Mercury is as follows. 7 years ago I got Chronic Fatigue
> Syndrome and after trying different remedies, vitamins, etc. I started
> keeping track of the days when I would get bouts of CFS so that I could look
> at my diet, etc and see what would be causing it. I would feel great for a
> while and for some unknown reason develop the swollen glands, joint pain and
> fatigue. I was looking at my calendar one day where I had marked all the
> episodes of CFS and noticed that they all, no exceptions, happened when
> Mercury was either turning R or D. Now that I have mostly recovered from
> CFS, I still get sick on Mercury R or D. This time it was a bad tooth on
> the R and a stomach virus on the D. I don't know if I am susceptible
> because of my natal chart or if others have had this experience. My Sun is
> in Gemini, Aquarius Rising and Moon in Taurus. Cancer rules the 6th house,
> Gemini the 5th. Go figure. I'm interested in hearing of others experience
> with health and Mercury R.
>

Janet:
I don't know anything about CFS, nor why station changes of Mercury
would effect it. But, from my own problems with recurrent prostate
infections that never actually go away, just wax and wane, I think that
there are simply just resistant viruses out there that medical science
cannot effectively treat. I think they use the term "syndrome" when they
haven't got an explanation, nor a treatment.
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